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 STAB SUSPECT INDICTED FOR MURDER TWO, ATTEMPTED MURDER Aug. 13, 2007 A Suffolk County Grand Jury today returned indictments charging a Dorchester man with the murder of one man and the attempted murder of another in a South Boston bar brawl earlier this year, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced. The indictments charge BERNARD PISCOPO, 38 (D.O.B. 3/4/69), with the second-degree murder of 26-year-old Revere resident Adam Rich at The Six House during the early morning hours of June 17. The indictments also charge Piscopo with the crimes of armed assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for an attack on one of Rich’s friends, 24-year-old Thomas Browne of Malden, during the same incident. Evidence developed during the course of a seven-week investigation by Suffolk prosecutors in the Grand Jury and Boston Police homicide detectives on the street suggests that, late on the night of June 16 and into the morning of June 17, Rich became involved in a fistfight with another individual at the West Broadway bar. Other individuals intervened in that melee, including the defendant and the surviving victim. Rich and another individual were escorted from the establishment as bar employees sought to defuse the situation by separating Piscopo and Browne. A short time later, Rich re-entered the bar and is believed to have punched Piscopo in the face, knocking him off his feet. Piscopo allegedly rose to his feet, knife in hand, and closed the distance between himself and Rich. In the moments that followed, Piscopo allegedly stabbed Rich multiple times in the back, chest, stomach, legs, and hand. Piscopo also allegedly stabbed Browne three times in the back and shoulders as well before fleeing out the back door. The indictment moves Piscopo’s case from South Boston District Court to Superior Court, where it will be adjudicated. He is expected to face arraignment tomorrow morning in the Magistrate’s Session, located on the seventh floor of the Suffolk County Courthouse.
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